Rev. Osagyefo Uhuru Sekou is Associate Fellow for Religion and Justice at Institute for Policy Studies. The sermon was adapted from his essay: “Who’s God is God?: The Making of an authentic Religious Left” in Dispatches from the Religious Left: The Future of Faith and Politics in America (Ig Publishing 2008).

Unlike the recent document claiming reconciliation between evangelicals and progressives the only way democracy has ever been expanded in the US, according to the Rev. Sekou, is by the defeat of conservative evangelical positions.